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• the present invention relates to various peptides, homologous to regions of heat shock protein (HSP), to DNA sequences encoding such peptides, to DNA constructs comprising the DNA sequences, to antibodies directed against peptides of the invention.
• HSP heat shock protein
• the invention also relates to active vaccines comprising a peptide, a DNA sequence or a DNA construct of the invention, and to a passive immunization composition comprising at an antibody of the invention.
• Adjuvant Arthritis is an experimental model of autoimmune arthritis which can be induced in susceptible strains of rats such as inbred Lewis or Wistar strains upon vaccination with heat-killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MT) in complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA) [1-3].
• MT Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• CFA complete Freund's Adjuvant
• the disease cannot be induced in resistant strains of rats (e.g., Brown-Norway; Fisher [5, 6], and Lewis rats develop resistance to re-induction of the disease after recovery from arthritis.
• the inventors have previously shown that resistance to AA can be transferred to a susceptible strain of rats by intravenous infusion of immunoglobulins from the resistant strains, and that resistance is associated with the presence of antibodies against the 65kD MT heat shock protein (HSP 65) [4].
• HSP 65 heat shock protein
• Heat shock proteins are a family of highly conserved proteins. There is ⁇ 50% amino acid identity between the Mycobacterial HSP 65 and the mammalian HSP 60 [21].
• AA can be passively transferred by a T-cell clone reactive to residues 180-188 of the MT HSP 65, and in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an association between T-cell responses to HSP 65 and early stages of joint inflammation has been found [7, 12-14].
• RA rheumatoid arthritis
• arthritic rats develop vigorous T cell responses to self-HSP and to peptide 180-188 of the MT HSP, neither of these is arthritogenic when injected to arthritis-susceptible rats [15, 17].
• HSP may contain epitopes that are disease-related and other epitopes that confer resistance [5, 19, 20]. Both the pathogenic immune response as well as the protective effect were attributed to anti-HSP T-cells.
• naive Lewis rats lack antibodies to certain epitopes of the mycobacterial HSP 65 which are found naturally in young BN and old naive Lewis rats, and that are acquired by young Lewis rats after recovery from the disease.
• the present invention relates to a peptide comprising the amino acid sequence substantially as denoted by SED ID No. 1 and biologically functional homologues and derivatives thereof.
• the invention relates to a peptide having the amino acid sequence substantially as denoted by SED ID No. 2 and biologically functional homologues and derivatives thereof and to a peptide having the amino acid sequence substantially as denoted by SED ID No. 3 and biologically functional homologues and derivatives thereof.
• the invention relates to a peptide comprising the amino acid sequence substantially as denoted by SED ID No. 4 and biologically functional homologues and derivatives thereof.
• the peptides of the invention can be synthetic peptides and chemically modified peptides.
• the peptides of the invention are capable of conferring immunity against autoimmune and/or inflammatory disorders.
• the invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a peptide of the invention and to DNA constructs comprising the same.
• the invention relates to vaccines comprising as active ingredient an effective vaccinating amount of at least one peptide of the invention, or a nucleic acid according to the invention.
• the vaccines of the invention are particularly useful in conferring immunity against autoimmune or inflammatory disorders.
• the invention relates to antibodies directed against the peptides of the invention and to compositions comprising them.
• the compositions of the invention are particularly useful for the passive vaccination against autoimmune or inflammatory disorders.
• the present invention relates to peptides comprising the amino acid sequence substantially as denoted by SEQ ID:No. 1, and biologically functional homologues and derivatives thereof.
• the peptide according to the first embodiment of the invention has the amino acid sequence substantially as denoted by SEQ ID:No. 2 or the amino acid sequence substantially as denoted by SEQ ID:No. 3.
• the invention further relates to a peptide comprising the amino acid sequence substantially as denoted by SEQ ID:No. 4 and biologically functional homologues and derivatives thereof.
• the invention also relates to a nucleic acid sequence which encodes a peptide according to the invention. More particularly, the invention relates to a DNA sequence comprising the nucleic acid sequence substantially as denoted by SEQ ID No. 5, and biologically functional derivatives thereof. This nucleic acid sequence encodes a peptide having the sequence substantially as denoted by SEQ ID No. 4.
• biologically functional homologues and derivatives any variations, including deletion, substitution and/or insertion of an amino acid residue in the amino acid sequences or a nucleic acid in the nucleic acid sequences of the invention which would not alter the biological activity of the peptides, or peptides encoded by the nucleic acid sequences, against autoimmune diseases.
• this term is to be taken to mean peptides with similar structure, peptides or their derivatives that are recognized by the protective antibodies and/or peptides or their derivatives that can induce protective antibodies upon immunization.
• the invention further relates to DNA constructs comprising the nucleic acid sequence of the invention or functional homologues and derivatives thereof.
• the constructs of the invention may further comprise additional elements such as promoters, regulatory and control elements, translation, expression and other signals, operably linked to the nucleic acid sequence of the invention.
• the invention also relates to a vaccine comprising as active ingredient an effective vaccinating amount of at least one peptide of the invention.
• the vaccines of the invention are particularly intended to confer immunity against inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, for example, rheumatoid arthritis or adjuvant arthritis.
• an effective vaccinating amount is meant an amount sufficient to stimulate the immune system, directly or indirectly, and confer immunity against inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Such effective amount is determined the severity of the disease, age, sex and weight of the patient, as well as the patient's general condition, and by other considerations known to the attending physician. Preferred doses, per injection, may be 0.02-2mg/Kg body weight.
• the vaccines of the present invention may alternatively comprise as the active ingredient at least one nucleic acid sequence according to the invention.
• the vaccines according to the invention may optionally further comprise pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, diluents additives, excipients and adjuvants.
• pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, diluents additives, excipients and adjuvants is meant any inert, non-toxic material that may assist in the efficient delivery of the active ingredient.
• antibody refers to both polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
• Polyclonal antibodies may be generated in rabbits, chicken, mice, rats, sheep, or similar mammals. The generation of polyclonal antibodies against peptides is described in the above-noted Current Protocols in Immunology, Wiley and Sons Inc. Chapter 9.
• Monoclonal antibodies may be prepared from B cells taken from the spleen or lymph nodes of immunized animals, in particular rats or mice, by fusion with immortalized B cells under conditions which favor the growth of hybrid cells. For fusion of murine B cells, the cell fine Ag-8 is preferred.
• antibody is also meant to include both intact molecules as well as fragments thereof, such as, for example, Fab and F(ab')2, which are capable of binding antigen.
• Fab and F(ab')2 fragments lack the Fc fragment of intact antibody, clear more rapidly from the circulation, and may have less non-specific tissue binding than an intact antibody.
• an antibody is said to be “directed against” a molecule if it is capable of specifically reacting with the molecule to thereby bind the molecule to the antibody.
• epitope is meant to refer to that portion of any molecule capable of being bound by an antibody which can also be recognized by that antibody.
• Epitopes or "antigenic determinants” usually consist of chemically active surface groupings of molecules such as amino acids or sugar side chains and have specific three dimensional structural characteristics as well as specific charge characteristics.
• an "antigen” is a molecule or a portion of a molecule capable of being bound by an antibody which is additionally capable of inducing an animal to produce antibody capable of binding to an epitope of that antigen.
• An antigen may have one or more than one epitope. The specific reaction referred to above is meant to indicate that the antigen will react, in a highly selective manner, with its corresponding antibody and not with the multitude of other antibodies which may be evoked by other antigens.
• compositions for use in passive immunization may be provided in the form of compositions for use in passive immunization. While such compositions are generally administered by injection, it is not intended that the present invention be limited to this route alone. In general, however, the compositions of the invention are administered by intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. Occasionally, the intravenous or intraperitoneal routes may also be used to administer the compositions ofthe invention.
• compositions of the invention may also comprise a buffering agent, an agent which adjusts the osmolarity thereof, and optionally, one or more further additives, such as carriers, as known in the art.
• a preferred buffering agent is phosphate-buffered saline solution (PBS), which solution is also adjusted for osmolarity.
• PBS phosphate-buffered saline solution
• a preferred composition is one lacking a carrier.
• Such formulations are preferably used for administration by injection, including intramuscular and intravenous injection.
• the preparation of pharmaceutical and immunizing compositions is well known in the art and has been described in many articles and textbooks, see e.g., Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gennaro A. R. ed., Mack Publishing Company, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1990. It has been shown that the development of autoimmune diabetes in the NOD mouse is marked by the presence of T-cells reactive to the p277 peptide of the HSP 60. It has further been shown that the p277 peptide can be used as a therapeutic vaccine to arrest NOD diabetes [28]. The p277 peptide has been shown to arrest also autoimmune diabetes induced by the Streptozotocin toxin [29]. Likewise, the vaccines according to the invention may also be used to suppress an autoimmune disease.
• the vaccines of the invention may also be used to prevent relapses of autoimmune diseases, which characterize many autoimmune diseases. Prevention of a relapse is therefore part of the therapeutic approach to these disorders.
• the above peptide p277 has been shown to prevent NOD mice diabetes by turning off the anti-p277 immunity early in fife. It was later shown to arrest autoimmune process even after it is far advanced [28].
• HSP65 has been shown to induce release of pro-inflammatory cytokines from human monocytic cells [18] and the mammalian HSP60 has been shown to synergize with IFN- ⁇ and to promote pro-inflammatory cytokines like IL-12 and IL-15 [31]. Induction of anti-Mycobacterial / anti-self HSP antibodies may suppress those proinflammatory effects.
• immunoglobulins are commonly used for prevention and treatment of infectious diseases (i.e. viral hepatitis). This is termed passive vaccination. Immunoglobulins can also be used to suppress or prevent relapses of autoimmune diseases like ITP (Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura), Myasthenia Gravis (MG), and other autoimmune diseases [30].
• ITP Immunoglobulin Thrombocytopenic Purpura
• MG Myasthenia Gravis
• the invention relates to an antibody directed against at least one peptide according to the invention or functional homologues and derivatives thereof, which can induce the production of said antibody.
• the antibodies of the invention may be polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies.
• the invention relates to a composition for the passive immunization comprising at least one antibody according to the invention, and may optionally further comprise pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, diluents, additives, excipients and adjuvants.
• the composition of the present invention is particularly intended for the passive vaccination or immunization against, and treatment of autoimmune or inflammatory disorders, for example, rheumatoid arthritis.
• the following Examples show the anti-MT HSP antibody response of various rats and its correlation with susceptibility to induction of arthritis. Only a limited number of epitopes in the bacterial HSP molecule is recognized by rat antibodies. The repertoire of this antibody differs between resistant and susceptible strains. Resistant strains were found to respond to peptides that are found on the outer surface of the molecule, as well as to the whole molecule. On the other hand, antibodies from naive Lewis rats reacted with a smaller number of peptides, which are less exposed on the outer surface of the molecule and did not react with the intact HSP. The presence of antibodies against some of the epitopes, as well as the whole MT-HSP, may be associated with resistance to the induction of arthritis and they were therefore named "protective" epitopes.
• Lewis rats recognized only two bacterial epitopes; peptides 40 and 63.
• Lewis rats recognized, in addition, peptides 6, 36 and 45 and nine months
• Lewis rats recognized peptides 7 and 31, in addition to all the other mentioned peptides. Recognition of these peptides is also associated with recognition of the whole bacterial HSP molecule.
• the B cell epitope repertoire of the young BN rats is similar to that of the old Lewis rats including only one additional peptide, peptide 59.
• Lewis rats that were immunized with the CFA responded to all the aforementioned peptides, as well as to two additional peptides, namely 21 and 84.
• the antibodies against the MT HSP inhibit the early steps of induction of pathogenic T cells to the peptide by intervening in the antigen processing or the T cell recognition of the pathogenic epitopes. Alternatively they may prevent the effector steps of the pathogenic response by binding to the self HSP-cross reacting target antigen.
• the T cell response of AA susceptible Lewis and AA resistant WKA Wistar rats to the bacterial HSP 65kD has been thoroughly studied. It has been shown that in the early post immunization stages the Lewis T cells respond to several determinants found in the N terminal, as well as in the carboxy terminal of the molecule, whereas later a shift to carboxy terminal epitopes has developed.
• the early T cell response of Wistar rats was similar to that of the late response of the Lewis rats.
• the 3D structure of the molecule does not show the carboxy and the N terminal sites to be in different locations of the molecule , it is not surprising that the B-cell epitopes were found all along the molecule without any selection of either the carboxy or the N terminal of the molecule.
• HSP mammalian (or self) HSP is upregulated in inflamed synovia of rats with AA [22] and cross-reactive immunerecognition has been found between the Mycobacterial HSP 65kD and endogenous self HSP 60kD at the T-cell level [23-25].
• one of the two self protective epitopes is the self peptide 5, which is the homologous rat epitope to the bacterial protective peptide 6.
• immunization with the bacterial peptides 6 and 7 and with the mammalian peptide 5 led to the production of anti bacterial HSP 6 and anti bacterial HSP antibodies, as well as protection against disease induction.
• Observing the primary structure of these three peptides leads to the conclusion that they express a common motif (V--E--W G-P) which might be the protective motif of these peptides (Figure. 5). Therefore, the humoral immune response to the bacterial HSP may be aimed at a limited number of potential B-cell epitopes.
• epitopes are peptide stretches located between amino acids that serve as bends and spacers, and are found in non-conserved parts of the molecule. Recognition of B-cell epitopes that are exposed on the surface of the molecule leads to binding to the whole molecule and is associated with resistance to induction of arthritis.
• the present invention can also provide a method for the prediction of susceptibility/predisposition to develop autoimmune arthritis.
• naive young Lewis rats do not have antibodies against peptide 6 of the HSP, and that they are susceptible to the development of arthritis after exposure to or immunization by HSP.
• healthy individuals that lack sub-groups of antibodies against HSP specific peptides may be susceptible to onset of arthritis.
• the present invention also provides an assay for the assessment and determination of susceptibility/predisposition to arthritis.
• the assay can be performed by ELISA, in which the peptides will be bound to the solid phase and serum samples added, followed by adding anti human Igs. Other known immunological analysis techniques can also be used.
• mice Female inbred Lewis rats, 6 weeks or 9 months old, were obtained from Harlan Lab. Israel.
• Recombinant HS P65 of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis was a gift from Dr. M. Singh (The WHO Recombinant Protein Bank, Germany).
• Recombinant mammalian HSP 60 was purchased from StressGen Biothec. Corp. (Victoria, BC, Canada).
• Synthetic peptides of MT HSP 65 were a gift from Dr. L. Adorini (The Roche Milano Ricerche, Milano, Italy).
• Synthetic peptides of the mammalian HSP 60 were a gift from Dr. I. Cohen (The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel).
• Goat anti Rat IgG conjugated to alkaline-phosphatase was purchased from Jackson ImmunoResearch Lab. Inc. (Avonsdale, PA).
• Adjuvant Arthritis Lewis rats were injected with 1 mg of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis H37Ra (Difco, Detroit, MI) in Complete Freund's Adjuvant (Difco) subcutaneously at the base of the tail. Severity of Arthritis (arthritis index) was assessed blindly as follows: 0 - no arthritis; 1 - redness of the joint; 2 - redness and swelhng of the joint. The ankle and tarsal-metatarsal joints of each paw were scored. A maximum score of 16 can be obtained, but a score above 8 indicates a severe disease.
• Dot Blots assay Antigens were dissolved in PBS and samples of 1 ⁇ g were adsorbed on Nitrocellulose paper. The paper was air-dried and incubated with BSA 1% in PBS for 20 min. to block non-specific binding. The samples were then washed in PBS-Tween 0.05% and incubated with rat sera diluted 1:100 in BSA-PBS, for 90 min. at room temp. Samples were washed and incubated with goat anti rat antibody conjugated to alkaline phosphatase diluted 1:1000 in BSA-PBS for 90 min. at RT. After re-washing the color reaction was developed by adding a mixture of BCIP-NBT (Sigma-Fast, Sigma) to the cells for 15 min. The reaction was stopped by the addition of tap water.
• BCIP-NBT Sigma-Fast, Sigma
• ELISA Flat-bottomed 96 well plates (Corning) were coated with mammalian HSP 60, or Mycobacterial HSP 65 (10 ⁇ g/ml) in carbonate buffer pH 9.6 overnight at 4°C.
• HSP peptides were attached to plates pre-treated with glutaraldehyde according to Kasprzyk et al. [26]. Shortly, plates were coated with lOO ⁇ l/well of 5% w/v of glutaraldehyde in PBS for 1 hour at room temp. Plates were washed thoroughly with PBS and peptides (1 ⁇ g/lOO ⁇ l) were added to each well, incubated overnight at 4°C. Plates were shaken dry and blocked with BSA 1% in PBS.
• HSP 65 derived peptides were tested for their ability to modulate the appearance or severity of AA in Lewis rats. Rats were immunized with 100 ⁇ g of each peptide in PBS, three weeks (3W), 2W and IW before induction of AA by MT. Control rats received PBS. Rats were bled for testing antibody presence before injection of MT and 30 days post MT injection.
• DNA Vaccine preparation A synthetic oligoDNA, having the SEQ ID No. 5, encoding the oligopeptide Mycobacterium Tuberculosis HSP 65kD No. 6, presented in Table 1, was cloned into the commercially available mammalian expression vector, pTARGET (Programa, Madison, WT, USA), having the restriction map depicted in Fig. 6. The cloning was carried out according to the manufacturer's instructions.
• the plasmid construct was then transferred into E. coli JM109 strain and expanded to large scale for further plasmid purification, using the DNA purification system Wizard Plus Maxipreps kit (Programa, Madison, WI, USA).
• Animal vaccination Lewis rats were pre-treated with Bupivaccine (Astra) two days prior to vaccination and later disease induction. The rats were then twice injected with 100 ⁇ g of the DNA construct, into the tibialis anterior muscle, with a week interval between the injections.
• Bupivaccine Astra
• Immunoglobulins from naive Lewis and BN rats and post-AA Lewis rats were tested for binding to 38 synthetic 20-mer peptides of the mammalian HSP 60 by Dot-Blot. It was found that Ig's derived from BN and post-AA Lewis rats, but not from naive Lewis rats, reacted with 2 peptides only: peptide 5 (residues 61-80) and peptide 30 (residues 436-455). Quantitative analysis of this binding as well as the binding of immunoglobulins from four and nine months old Lewis rats confirmed the dot blot findings (Table 3).
• the HSP 60 family is highly conserved: MT-HSP 65 and its mammalian homologues (rat or human) show 48% identity.
• Fig. 1 the three amino acid sequences of the MT-HSP 65, HSP 60 from rat and human are compared. The consensus sequence of these three proteins is shown too.
• the epitopes that were found to be relevant in this study are shown in Bold and Underlined.
• Tertiary structure plays an important role for B-cell epitope recognition.
• a simple computer program was provided, that could predict where to find potential B-cell epitopes by screening the primary structure of the peptide.
• the algorithm is based on a previous analysis by Warren et al. [27] of the Myelin Basic Protein to locate potential epitopes for B-cell. According to their analysis, two sorts of amino acids can be defined:
• Molecular spacers These are short-chain residues (side chains of one carbon or less) that could provide a molecular gap for adjacent long-chain amino acids. Three amino acids that fit this definition are: Glycine (G), Alanine (A) and Serine (S).
• the peptide was screened by a computer program and consecutive long-chain residues (side chains of two carbons or more) located between molecular spacers and/or molecular bends are shown (the 6 first peptides).
• the two peptides below them are the consecutive chain that contain at most one molecular spacer (glycine).
• peptide 45 As to peptides 265-280: This peptide can be divided into two consecutive regions: one polymorphic (residues 265-271) and the second highly conserved (residues 271-280). Analysis of the three-dimensional structure shows that the polymorphic region is the exposed region, whereas the conserved region seems to be "buried" in the whole molecule (not shown). Therefore, it is possible that the antibodies that bind peptide 45 are mainly directed against the exposed polymorphic region.
• Fig. 2 shows the location of bacterial peptides 6, 7 and 31 on the three dimensional structure of the E.Coli GroEL-GroES complex and Fig. 3, as stated, shows the same peptides on a model of the MT HSP 65 based on the structure of GroEL E. Coli with a space-filling and secondary structure representations.
• Fig. 4 shows that only pre-immunization of rats with the bacterial peptides 6 and 7 and the mammahan peptide 5 resulted in a significant suppression of disease severity.

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